The courts decided to issue a ruling on 18 March on the appeal filed by former President Hosni Mubarak and two of his former officials against their guilty verdict for cutting mobile phone and internet service during the January 2011 uprising.
Mubarak, former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly and former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif were fined a total of LE540 million for the crime.
Telecoms operator Vodafone said in January that it and other mobile operators had no option but to comply with the authorities' order to suspend services in selected areas of the country during the peak of the anti-government demonstrations.
The Administrative Court’s investment department had sentenced the three defendants to pay the fine out of their own pocket to the state treasury, as a form of compensation for the damage inflicted on the nation’s economy from the service cuts.
Adly was fined LE300 million, Mubarak LE200 million and Nazif LE40 million.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
